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Windows 7: Latest version of Avast Antivirus

We will soon be releasing a new program update of avast; and as usual, we're making it available for public testing a few days before the official release. Edit: now updated to build 6.0.1086.

This is hopefully going to be a smooth service release, designed to fix some of the issues of the original v6.0.1000 build.

Here's the list of the most important changes:
- solved an incompatibility with ZoneAlarm (WinXP)
- improved installation of the WebRep plugins (especially Firefox)
- solved a crash condition in the avast sandbox
- setup programs now smaller by ~20%
- Community features and the Welcome screen can now be turned on/off directly from program settings
- solved an incompatibility with Outpost firewall
- solved a bug related to the AutoSandbox offer (WinXP)
- gadget can now be removed by simply closing it
- new setup icons

I enjoy using avast. However the only problem I have is when you have scan that is set to go off at a specific time, you get a notification that does not go away and tells you how much it has scanned. Any idea how to fix this problem?

Seem to be having a problem, when I installed it my system locked up. Got to the finish screen and that was all.
Went to safe mode tried to update it, no good, so un-installed it. Re-boot, Installed again, restart to normal, locked up again. Un-installed again.

Fresh install a couple of weeks ago, first time trying to install Avast. Have MSE installed, have ran both together before with no problems.
In safe mode MSE is turned off so that should have allowed it to install.

Ran updated Malwarebytes, Avast Full scan (from Win7 on HDD), ESET on-line, MSE full scan, last week.
Ran MSE full scan and Avast Full scan (from Win7 on HDD) today. All were ok.

Seem to be having a problem, when I installed it my system locked up. Got to the finish screen and that was all.
Went to safe mode tried to update it, no good, so un-installed it. Re-boot, Installed again, restart to normal, locked up again. Un-installed again.

Fresh install a couple of weeks ago, first time trying to install Avast. Have MSE installed, have ran both together before with no problems.
In safe mode MSE is turned off so that should have allowed it to install.

Ran updated Malwarebytes, Avast Full scan (from Win7 on HDD), ESET on-line, MSE full scan, last week.
Ran MSE full scan and Avast Full scan (from Win7 on HDD) today. All were ok.

Any ideas?

When 5.1 was released there seemed to be a lot of this happening, have a look through this thread;

I have been running Avast and MSE on two systems for a while now with no problems. Have had two threats found in the last year, one by Avast and one by MSE. Which confirmed my initial reason to try both of them at the same time.

Will keep looking for a similar issue and hopefully find a way to resolve this. If not then back to one AV.

If you'd like a 3rd opinion, Install Avira Antivir as a On Demand scanner only. During installation, just don't install the Guard function. Then just manually scan with Avira. Also, if you use Firefox, there is an addon from BitDefender called QuickScan. It does a very quick scan using the cloud. It won't do any removal, but if it alerts to something, you can look into it. It takes less then a minute to run.

I have been running Avast and MSE on two systems for a while now with no problems. Have had two threats found in the last year, one by Avast and one by MSE. Which confirmed my initial reason to try both of them at the same time.

Will keep looking for a similar issue and hopefully find a way to resolve this. If not then back to one AV.

I had the same issue installing MSE 2.0 released version what ever it was with Avast back in Jan. or Feb.
I didn't ever get both to work together.
Still won't.

Only help I got when I posted a thread is uninstall one of them.
Evidently we are just paranoid wanting to run both.

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